Michigan Public Service Commission to host May 29 meeting in Detroit

Are you indignant together with your utility firm?

Are you indignant in regards to the state committee that supervises it? Or perhaps you simply wish to say that you just recognize the exhausting -working authorities officers who look ahead to you.

Mark your agendas, the Michigan Public Service Fee invitations you for a gathering from 6 pm to eight pm on 29 Could in Detroit, 3022 W. Grand Blvd., room L-150. Chairman then Scripps and at the very least two commissioners might be current to take heed to you.

The committee invoices the occasion as a “public listening to” and a “alternative” for “public involvement”, however doesn’t let the bureaucratic Lingo intimidate you. You probably have one thing to say, a query to ask, an concept that you really want your authorities to method, communicate.

“The MPSC acknowledges that the selections it makes, have a direct affect on the life and purses of buyer and pocket books of telecommunications,” mentioned Scripps, including that it’s “methods to increase how the general public can inform the committee’s selections.”

It isn’t your solely likelihood to fulfill individuals who will resolve how a lot you pay your utility firm, however it’s one the place you need to be capable of look them within the eyes and inform them what you actually really feel.

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If you want, you may supply a criticism of the committee, which got here underneath hearth final 12 months after the free press investigated whether or not the committee and the utility corporations they regulate had been too nice and the way the committee handled the complaints of the patron.

Scripps, in addition to commissioners Katherine Peretick and Alessandra Carreon, and the workers is deliberate to be there, they usually mentioned they need your concepts about how they’ll make “public participation and enter simpler.”

The committees even insist that you probably have a handicap and wish an inexpensive lodging to attend, to name the manager secretary of the committee on 517-284-8090 and they’ll do their finest to set it up.

Please contact Frank Witsil: 313-222-5022 or fwitsil@freepress.com.